The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-08-17
DAWSON, GA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II, 1887.


"Shucks," says I, and then l
just bust right out into a laugh; l
couldn't hold in no longer. Well
we set there for little bit iookin'
out O doors. l couldn't think
bout what to say. Then he says:
"Hit looks like hit mought rain
towards night. We've had a pour
of rain lately awe have that;V
| says. Then | says: "Hits
mighty bad weather on them that
wants TO get married. You see,
thought | would try and bring it
round somehow.
WELL he says, 4 don't know
as much bout that, but hits pow>
erful on the growing truct, Miss
McMinn,' he says; ! was walkin'
over my later patch Yesterday, and
| never seen nothin' come out like
them taters
''You low you've got enough
for two | says, sorter laughing.
We'll, now, you'd think he
says, Miss McMinn, I've got be-
tween twenty and thirty Lead O
hogs | mean to make plum rollin'
fat often then taters.'
''Well;' 1 says, 4 know some
body that wants to go partners in
them taters, and in the hogs, too,
and in fact they want to go part
ners in all you've got.
well, / don't know about that,
he says. when 1 first set in
here. Bob Simms vowed he'd go
halfers with me, but l told him
No; I'd gone halfers with Teller
onct and that was enough for me-
No, | don't want no partners, Miss
McMinn, but if you know any
body that can plank down the
ready cash money, why I'll sell
out the whole kerboose mighty
reasonable
The one I'm talkin' bout hain't
got no money! l says. saw the
old fool was a poor hand to take a
hint. Hits a woman that wants
to go partners with you, aud she's
a mighty fine gal, too. She's as
good a cook as ever slung a kettle.
She can wash and iron for you,
and sew for you: She can patch
and darn and sew on buttons. In
fact says, she can Turn her
hand to most anything, and she's
willin' too We'll, he says, sor-
ter slow like, L ANT needin' a
cook just now, and / do my own
wasbin' and mendin', and as for
buttons, l tell you Miss McMinn,
| wouldn't give this liveoak peg
for all the buttons you can sew on.
I'd ruther have peg any day.
But he SAYS, NOW | think of it,
I would like to get pair of Jim's
briches made, and if the woman
you talkin' bout will make 'em,
and had ruther take her pay out
in hog meat and taters ruther than
money, why, it's all the same to
me- Now tell you bout that
time I was gittiu' mad. Hit look
ed like he was a plum fool and a
Ounce besides.
Look here, | say, cant you
take hint! II you can't I'll tell
you plain out. The woman wants
to marry you. That's the way she
wants to go partners | say, she
wants home and she tuck likin'
to you down to the frclic to old
man Joneses, and ] tell you, bit
would be mighty good trade for
YOU
well l wish you could q seen
i'm, he looked like he'd been stuck
kersmack in the face with a fash
O. lightnin'.'
''Oh, he says, that's hit, yass,
/ see. You want to marry me,
Tuck likin' to me to the froliG to
old man Joneses. Why, Miss
McMinn, | don't know you were
there, he says.
Laws mercyp l say. Lands
alive wasn't there, and don't you
think right there, fore l had time
to tell i'm hit wasn't me was talk
in bout, in steps silas; why how.
dye come on? he says, glad tc
see you, seems powerful hot he
says. I've got enough of it for thi;
day. and he sets right down and
begins taIkin' bout crops ant
things.
well, l wouldn't go out in the
shed where Mary Ann was, cause
l knowed she'd want to tell, so
! just set there.
| - Al